{"id":6898,"date":"2019-10-30T02:18:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T20:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=6898"},"modified":"2019-10-30T02:18:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T20:48:03","slug":"ai-based-enterprise-assistant-fireflies-raises-rs-35-cr-led-by-canaan-partners-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=6898","title":{"rendered":"AI-based enterprise assistant Fireflies raises Rs 35 Cr led by Canaan Partners, others"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[Funding alert] AI-based enterprise assistant Fireflies raises Rs 35 Cr led by Canaan Partners, others<\/h2>\n
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Artificial Intelligence-enabled enterprise assistant Fireflies<\/strong>\u00a0recently raised\u00a0Rs 35 crore\u00a0<\/strong>in its first funding round led by\u00a0Canaan Partners,<\/strong>\u00a0along with\u00a0several other notable tech executives.<\/p>\n

The Hyderabad- and San Francisco-based company plans on using the funds to grow its core engineering teams in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Delhi and enhance its machine learning and infrastructure teams, Fireflies shared with\u00a0YourStory\u00a0<\/em>in<\/strong>\u00a0an email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Krish Ramineni, CEO and co-founder<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The other participating investors were\u00a0April Underwood\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Bill Macaitis\u00a0<\/strong>from the cloud-based team collaboration tool Slack;\u00a0Aston Motes\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Armando Mann\u00a0<\/strong>from file storage and sharing company Dropbox;\u00a0Sandhya Venkatachalam<\/strong>, Vice President of Corporate Development at Skype and Cisco;\u00a0Peter Reinhardt,\u00a0<\/strong>CEO of Segment; and\u00a0Susan Kimberlin<\/strong>, Director of Search at Salesforce.<\/p>\n

The startup emphasises the easy and flexible use of its platform. It works across web-conferencing platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, GoToMeeting, and Webex, among others. Users can connect their online calendars with Fireflies, and its AI system will keep track of meetings in real-time. The startup stated in a release,<\/p>\n

\u201cThese meetings are then indexed, transcribed, and made searchable on the Fireflies dashboard. One can also comment and annotate key moments and automatically extract relevant information.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fireflies further shared that it is leveraging the best of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), natural language processing (NLP), and neural nets, among other technologies. The startup states that the platform can be used by anyone, from sales managers and marketeers to engineers and recruiters, across big and small organisations.<\/p>\n

The startup has worked alongside other platforms, including Slack, Salesforce, and Hubspot, to make possible the syncing of relevant information from a meeting to the progress on an individual\u2019s ongoing work in the same area.<\/p>\n

The B2B-focused startup, which is easing the task of minute-making for corporate meetings, was founded in\u00a02016\u00a0<\/strong>by\u00a0Krish Ramineni\u00a0<\/strong>an alumnus of the Universtiy of Pennsylvania and former product manager at Microsoft, working on data science initatives and customer voice analytics.<\/p>\n

He is currently the CEO of Fireflies, while Co-founder\u00a0Sam Udotong,\u00a0<\/strong>a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate, is the CTO.<\/p>\n

(Edited by Athirupa Geetha Manichandar)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Funding alert] AI-based enterprise assistant Fireflies raises Rs 35 Cr led by Canaan Partners, others Artificial Intelligence-enabled enterprise assistant Fireflies\u00a0recently raised\u00a0Rs 35 crore\u00a0in its first funding round led by\u00a0Canaan Partners,\u00a0along with\u00a0several other notable tech executives. The Hyderabad- and San Francisco-based company plans on using the funds to grow its core engineering teams in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6899,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898\/revisions\/6899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}